Wetland microbial ecology & biogeochemistry

Wetland microbial ecology & biogeochemistry

Several on-going research projects in the lab consider the structure and function of microbial communities found in the soil of wetland ecosystems. Most of the research takes place at a tidal freshwater wetland associated with the nearby James and Pamunkey rivers. Long-term experimental manipulations are being conducted to study questions such as:

the coupled effects of hydrology and vegetation on biogeochemistry of freshwater wetlands

the effects of anthropogenic nitrogen loading on microbial-mediated aspects of nitrogen and carbon cycling